Total donations to Sonoma Valley youth art programs from the Sonoma Plein Air Foundation passed the million-dollar mark with this year’s disbursement of $130,000.
Fifteen schools and four nonprofits received donations ranging from $1,050 to $22,000.
The foundation was founded in 2002 by local artist Keith Wicks as part of the annual Plein Air Festival Week. The mission is to provide funds for visual arts supplies and for art teachers and art programs so that every student experiences art at school.
This year’s donations will fund or partially fund:
Dunbar School: Art At Lunch program and a “watershed multi-panel mural combining art, science and garden lessons.”
El Verano: A community mural depicting stories about the El Verano neighborhood and outdoor installation of a Metal Tree of Life.
Flowery: Supplies and teacher honoraria, classes with ARTescape.
Prestwood: print making, weaving, clay sculptures, photography, art materials.
Sassarini: Watercolor and acrylic painting, ceramics, collages, recycled art sculptures, sketch books.
Altimira and Adele Harrison: Leather works projects, ceramic bird houses, mobiles ala Alexander Calder, supplies, African art and Japanese Notan projects.
Sonoma Charter: Kiln for ceramic projects, clay and glaze.
Woodland Start Charter: Woodworking, sewing, felting projects, drawing, oil pastels, fabrics supplies.
Sonoma Valley High: Sketch books, field trip, glazes, color printer, mural and art supplies, digital camera updates, film, canvas panels.
Creekside: Supplies, paint, sketch books.
Sonoma Community Center: Scholarships for student art lessons, Craft Club for kids, Trashion Fashion, ceramics for students and supplies.
SVMA: Funding for the Arts Rewards the Students A.R.T.S. program.
Arts Guild” Small but Grand project in SVHS, canvases.
ARTescape: Artists in Residence at Dunbar, Flowery after school, Friday after school drop in class, art supplies, teacher workshop.
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